Sentence examples for railroad sets from inspiring English sources

In June, RC2, which is based in Rockford, Ill., recalled 1.5 million Thomas & Friends wooden toy railroad sets after discovering that from 2005 to this year, many of those products were coated with paint that had high levels of lead.

The railroad setting evoked strong memories for Mr. Cheney.

He has a collection of art by Andy Warhol, Keith Haring and Roy Lichtenstein and an elaborate model railroad set.

The town clung to a small cape and looked like a model railroad set without the tiny trains.

The distant highway and hills, and the tiny cars below, took on all the manicured verisimilitude of a model railroad set.

Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg is making a push to block state funding for new rail cars on the Metro-North commuter railroad, setting the stage for another city-versus-suburbs battle.

The 40-acre yard crammed with full-size rail cars and the 123-foot-high roundhouse with century-old steam engines in immaculate condition both enthralled our budding rail buff, but the highlight by far was a 40-foot-long model railroad set that had him mesmerized for a full half-hour.

But even if Mr. Burden is eager to avoid catastrophe, his simple garden railroad set-up -- unlike the mind-bogglingly intricate bridges on exhibit in Chelsea -- is for him an almost Zen-like pursuit, as far from danger as he can stand.

As I told Ms. Allcroft -- who seemed the sort of person one could confide in -- my son, Luc, had been for a hefty portion of his total of nearly 6 years a passionate admirer of Thomas the Tank Engine: a singer of the Thomas the Tank Engine theme and the owner of a Thomas the Tank Engine railroad set, of Thomas memorabilia, videocassettes and pajamas.

A call to the railroad set off a hunt for his goods.

He continued to be active in the Underground Railroad, setting up a new safe house in the city and helping organize a larger network in the area.